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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the recurring dreams Claire has in which she is wearing a leather mask, she always weeps when what event occurs?
(a) Someone kills her son.
(b) Someone takes her son away from her.
(c) When she realizes she is no longer pregnant.
(d) Someone puts her son in her arms.

2. What age group is the only group to be given their assignments on the second day of the Ceremony?
(a) Elevens.
(b) Nines.
(c) Tens.
(d) Twelves.

3. How many months after his birth does Claire teach her son to say her name aloud?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

4. When a Newchild is showing signs of being ineligible for assignment, it is called a failure to do what?
(a) To live.
(b) To pass muster.
(c) To thrive.
(d) To succeed.

5. At what age had Claire been selected as a Birthmother?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assignments are announced during the Twelves's part of the Ceremony?

2. Claire's older brother had been selected to work in what department within the community?

3. What is the reason that the boat workers are forced to wait one full day after the boat's arrival in order to unload the community's supplies?

4. Where does Claire's son sleep when the male Nurturer takes him home at night?

5. What occasion had prompted the community to perform the Ceremony of Loss a few years before the events of the narrative?

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